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On this side, the earth's heart trembles, shakes; there spreads a tremor in the unsupported earth; the thing called fortitude is seen nowhere.
Neither the intelligence of Rati (Cupid's wife) nor of the recluse work. The fecundity of the earth's surface, that productive energy, will flow away, will go where, no body knows. Often it is heard that the earth-faring ones get little from the sky-faring ones except the assaults, which they get many! What will the one unrestrained give to the restrained one? What will the unattached one take from the one who is attached? It is not only heard, but has been seen many a time that before the vows and
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